If you are new to genealogy, this blog will be focused on the beginner ancestry researcher and a very important topic for them: how to start your research for free. Yes, for free! All you need to do is signup for a free account. Let’s get started! 1: How to Find FamilySearch If you do […]
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In my previous blog, I went over How To Plan/Prepare Your Visit To The Renowned FHL, but what if you can’t visit the Family History Library (FHL). Good news! Family History Library-FHL has you covered with their new record lookup service. This service started due to Covid-19, but now that the Family History Library and
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At some point in your genealogy journey you will likely need or want to visit the renowned Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City, Utah. My first visit was in 2008, which I will call “the spark”. At this point I was not the family genealogist and was in Salt Lake City to pickup my
In Part One, I showed you step-by-step how use the film number that was cited on an Ancestry Index record to view the original digitized document on FamilySearch. In this blog I will show you what you need to do when you can’t view the original digitized document on FamilySearch with using the film number
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In part one of this blog I will guide you in how to further your ancestry tree with using Catalog Search on FamilySearch. FamilySearch is a free website and all that is required is to setup a free account. Once that is done, then FamilySearch will let you get started with searching. If you mainly
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What do know about Ancestry media posting and privacy when you decide to take down, for example, a photo from your public tree? This is something I really didn’t know anything about until recently. This is what happened. I decided to make a photo private with my Family Tree Maker software. Yes, the photo no
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Ancestry® makes it super easy to add web links to anyone in your personal ancestry tree, whether it is public or a private. In my blogs: Do Special Holidays/Celebrations and Ancestry Have Something in Common? and How To Make Rotten Banana Cake That is Oh… So Good!, I mentioned that capturing the memories of loved ones or
No the banana cake is not rotten nor for that matter are the bananas. This is the cake recipe name my mother gave for using up really ripe bananas. I think she would say this to get a rise out of her family and friends. As bananas ripen, they develop more brown spots, turn sweeter
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One tool I easily use everyday in my ancestry research is the computer screenshot application called Snip & Sketch, formerly called Snipping Tool. All computers have screenshot tools that come on your computer and if you don’t have one you can easily download a screenshot application in your computer apps. My goal is to show
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This blog is a “How to” stay safe when logging onto ancestry websites when on a public computer. Recently, while I was volunteering at my Family History Center, I was about to log onto Ancestry when I noticed it had already populated a name and password. The problem was that it wasn’t me, but a
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